Cannes Film Festival 2019: The 72nd edition begins on May 14

Cannes Film Festival 2019 starts on May 14. As already mentioned above, the 72nd festival in a row will be chaired by a filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, who will thus be the first Latin American president of the jury in the history of the festival. He will be joined by four women and four men from four continents and seven different nationalities: an actress Elle Fanning, actress and director Maimouna N'Diaye, directors and screenwriters Kelly Reichardt and Alice Rohrwacher, comic book writer and director Enki Bilal and directors and screenwriterand Robin Campillo, Yorgos Lanthimos and Paweł Pawlikowski. This year, the festival will be opened by a zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die directed by Jim Jarmusch with a stellar cast (Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Adam Driver). It tells the story of the small town of Centerville, which has to fight against a horde of zombies.

Who is competing for the Palme d'Or?

In the best feature category, in addition to the Jarmusch film mentioned above, it is fighting for the prestigious palm this year 20 movies, including feature films by world-renowned directors such as Dolor y gloria by Pedro Almodóvar, Once upon a time in Quentin Tarantino's Hollywood and A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick.

There will be no Netflix films at the festival, as the artistic director of the festival, Thierry Frémaux, was unable to reach a compromise on suitability with them. The honorary Palme d'Or will go to a French film and theater actor at the 72nd festival Alain Delon.

Slovenian films are also at the festival

At this year's edition of the festival in Cannes, the Slovenian Film Center will present four Slovenian feature films at the Film Market (Market Screenings 2019): Don't forget to breathe director Martin Turk, Half-sister of director Damjan Kozolet, All Against All directed by Andrej Košak and I am Frenk directed by Metodo Pevec. A Slovenian author and director will also be present at this year's opening of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2019 program of the prestigious festival Urška Djukić with the short film The Right One. This year's producer "on the move" (Producer On The Move 2019) is Rok Biček at the head of the production company Cvinger Film. Biček's feature directorial debut, Class Enemy, won the Fedeora Award at the Venice Critics' Week in 2013, and the documentary Family won and received the main prize at the Locarno Critics' Week in 2017.